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  • My grandparents lived in a run-down Brooklyn tenement full of mirrored tables, ceramic figurines, and silver-bound prayer books.

    The Mother Garden Robin Romm 2007

  • My grandparents lived in a run-down Brooklyn tenement full of mirrored tables, ceramic figurines, and silver-bound prayer books.

    The Mother Garden Robin Romm 2007

  • There were no chairs or tables in the chamber, only three or four silken couches, embroidered with gold and worked in strange serpentine designs, and several silver-bound mahogany chests.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • There were no chairs or tables in the chamber, only three or four silken couches, embroidered with gold and worked in strange serpentine designs, and several silver-bound mahogany chests.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • There were no chairs or tables in the chamber, only three or four silken couches, embroidered with gold and worked in strange serpentine designs, and several silver-bound mahogany chests.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • There were no chairs or tables in the chamber, only three or four silken couches, embroidered with gold and worked in strange serpentine designs, and several silver-bound mahogany chests.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • There were no chairs or tables in the chamber, only three or four silken couches, embroidered with gold and worked in strange serpentine designs, and several silver-bound mahogany chests.

    Conan Howard, Robert E. & De Camp, L. Sprague & Carter, Lin 1966

  • Within was a new chariot, of dark polished cypress-wood, with ivory inlays and silver-bound wheels, a craftsman's masterpiece.

    The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

  • Then came the old schoolmaster, who yet, at the same time, had the features of Elizabeth's father; and, as he drew near me, I saw that the hammer he held in his hand was no hammer, but a large silver-bound

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

  • She pressed my hand approvingly; and while the lovely voices made their heavenly love, I slipped out my silver-bound pocket-book of ivory and pressed within it the rose which had just fallen from my lips.

    Prose Fancies (Second Series) Richard Le Gallienne 1906

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